《The God Creator System》


 1 Becoming a God

    "Watch out!" He shouted as he runs towards the child that was about to get hit by a truck


    Few seconds before the truck hits the child, He tried to save the child by pushing her away from the Truck''s path, but to his surprise his hands passed through the child making him fall face first to the ground.


    ''W-what? where did she go?'' The child that he was trying to save has disappeared, Was he hallucinating? where did the child go?


    The light''s getting brighter and brighter as the truck speeds to him.


    ''No! No! I refuse to die!'' Realizing that he doesn''t have enough time to get out of the truck''s way, Gritting his teeth, he desperately tried to crawl out of the truck''s path.


    ''I was trying to save someone''s life now I''m here knocking on death''s door, God.. what did I do to deserve this?'' Those were his last thoughts before getting hit by the truck.


    His life memories flashed through him as he bounces through the ground.


    "H-....ar-....y-...kay-" He can hear people calling to him.


    He was feeling immense pain all over his body, Breathing heavily desperately trying to keep himself alive, he slowly tried to open his eyes finding out that only one of his eyes responded due to the fact that his body was giving up on him, Worst of all he had an injury to his head and broken bones on his limbs.


    It''s a miracle that he could still stay awake and alive after getting hit by a fast truck head on, anyone that would get hit by it would be long gone dying right away.


    His vision was red, with blood flowing from his head to his eyes


    "Call-.....A...Lance!!" They were shouting, He could only hear some parts of it but he guessed that they were calling an ambulance


    ''I''m really dying..aaaaaahhh...'' Unsatisfied with his death, he closed his eyes accepting it, there was no use at trying to live anymore.


    No unordinary achievements, No friends, all of his relatives are dead, no lover or family, those are his condition.


    "Hey-..."


    Finally, the pain became numb, his heart stopped.


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    He could feel it, his eyes are open yet he can see nothing.


    ''Where am I?'' He asked himself


    He could feel himself looking around yet... There was nothing, Just darkness, there was nothing around him, not even light.


    "Am I in the void?, I thought there was an afterlife? where''s the promised afterlife?" He spoke yet there was no sound, he knows and felt that he spoke yet no sound came out of his mouth


    He looked down, there was nothing, He tried to touch any part of his body yet he felt nothing. but he can still feel that he can move all parts of his body.


    ''Guess I''ll try to walk around.. seems pretty useless, but its better than doing nothing.''


    He walked around... He can''t feel anything under his feet yet he kept moving.


    After a while, he gave up, the thought of him moving around without feeling any ground felt stupid.


    "Tsk.. am I going to stay here for eternity? In nothingness?, Do I even exist at this point?"


    He closed his eyes....trying to sleep


    After a while, he didn''t feel sleepy at all.


    He started to count trying to fall asleep by counting. one....two...three....four.....-


    Time passed by. Sometimes he opens his eyes checking if something changed.


    Seconds.


    Minutes.


    Hours.


    "How am I still sane?... When did I have the patience to wait this long?, Also how am I still not asleep?!" He complained.


    The silence continued.


    He continued counting


    It became days.


    Then months.


    Years have passed.


    Then He lost track of it.


    There was still nothing, yet he still feels sane after being alone in nothingness for decades.


    "...eternity..." He spoke yet there was no sound.


    ".... how long have I been in here?..." he asked himself.


    It was the same thing every day, he kept counting yet nothing changed, he never got bored or tired of it.


    ....


    ....


    Suddenly after decades of silence, a voice speaks, it was a voice that sounds like a female without emotions behind her words.


    [[Congratulations]]


    "Who''s there?!!" He looked around searching for the source of the voice, finding nothing as usual.


    [[You have been chosen to become a god]]


    [[Do you accept?]]


    "W-wait what?" After waiting for years, an outrageous question was asked, do you want to become a god? It was suspicious to him, everyone wouldn''t just refuse or immediately accept an offer like that


    [[Refusal would transfer your essence to a newly made body in a random world made by the gods and everything you learned in your life would be forgotten.]]


    "The gods? How many gods are there?"


    [[There are at least a million of gods with their own worlds and galaxies]]


    "I see.... who created the gods?"


    [[A phenomena called --------------]] the moment she mentioned it, her voice twisted to a sound he couldn''t understand


    "A phenomena?.. so gods are made by chance.. are you related to it?"


    [[No, I am not, you''re the only one chosen after the creation of the system Millenniums ago]]


    "Why me?"


    [[DENIED, You currently have no permission to gain knowledge about that.]]


    "What?..."


    [[The system highly recommends you to accept its offer to become a god]]


    "...If I accept... would you be able to answer my questions?"


    [[Processing.....]]


    [[Some of the information would be available to the user.]]


    After thinking for a while he decided to accept.


    ".....Its better than forgetting everything so I accept!"


    [[Accepted, your essence will now receive the abilities of a novice god.]]


    Suddenly there was light gathering around him, after years of darkness, light has appeared, surprisingly it didn''t blind him even though it was so bright.


    It slowly covered his body, his body was now visible, it now existed, unlike the past few years where he could sense them now it was there, it was made out of light.


    [[Your essence has successfully become a god]]


    He looked at his hands opening and closing it, it was now visible, he can now feel his body.


    "Can you answer questions now?" He said as he looks around, except his glowing body, there were nothing and pure darkness around him.


    [[Accepted, The system was created by --------------- and set requirements of passing ¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö and with the condition of ¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö,¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö and lastly -------]] Some of her words were in a language that he couldn''t understand since it never existed on earth, some were interrupted by a deafening ring that blocked his hearing


    "What?... why can''t I understand most of your words?"


    [[You haven''t got permission to learn them, please increase your ranking.]]


    "Ranking? Can I know my current conditions?"


    [[Please say ''Status'' to view information about yourself]]


    "Status!"


    A gamelike menu appeared in front of him


    [[Name: Unknown God ]]


    [[Current Forms: Humanlike essence ]]


    [[Ranking: Novice God ]]


    [[Abilities: Creation, Destruction ]]


    [[Reputation: Unknown ]]


    "Is this visible to the others?"


    [[It is not, the system is a special creation by ----------- and only the user would be able to see and hear it.]] The female ''System'' answered him and referred him as ''user''


    "Why is my name Unknown God?" He has a name yet it wasn''t there, instead it was replaced with ''Unknown God''


    [[You have been reborn as a god, your past lives mean nothing, you are free to change your current name]]


    "I see.. guess Ill change it later, I''m bad with names."


    "So I''m currently a human made out of light?"


    [[User, you have misunderstood it, Light and Essence are different from each other.]]


    "...." was it mocking him? he decided to ask another question


    "My abilities, it said creation, can I create anything?"


    [[You need to fully understand your creation to create them, attempting to create something you don''t fully understand may lead to failure.]]


    "Basically... knowledge is power..wait may lead?" It means there was still a chance for him to create anything without knowledge about it but there''s only a chance of failure.


    [[You can only attempt five times to create something with your current god rank]]


    "Five attempts to create something?..."


    [[The system recommends you to create light as a starter creation.]]


    "Wait how?"


    [[...]]


    "....um...."


    [[Please describe it and the system will attempt to create it with your help.]]


    "Why describe? Can''t I just imagine it?"


    [[You are not a god created naturally, you cannot create something without the help of the system]]


    "I see..." then he thought, how would he describe light?

 2 Let there be light!

    How will you describe light? Does he need to describe it scientifically? What exactly is light? those were the type of questions that flooded his thoughts.


    "Uhhhh... It glows?" After thinking for a while he gave up and just said the first thing that came out of his mind


    [[It seems like that the user is having difficulties at describing your creation, the system need more information about the object that the user is trying to create.]]


    "Yes, I am having a hard time figuring it out."


    He was in deep thoughts thinking about how he would describe light, would he describe it as electromagnetic energy? a photon? what the heck is light made out of?


    Describe light with more information? how the hell is he supposed to describe that? does he need to describe all types of light scientifically just to create an object? how is he going to create things if he needs to describe it with full details about it? does that mean if he wants to create a life he needs to understand everything about it? He just had average scores on his exams and got an average job, he''s not a scientist!


    then the system spoke.


    [[Would you like to receive help from the system?]]


    "Yes!" He immediately accepted the help that the system was providing


    [[Name a creation, the system will search the name of the object from its database and will attempt to create it based on it]]


    "Wait, just that?" He thought that the system would ask him questions related to his creation or give him more information about how he needs to describe it, but now it''s just asking for the damn name of the object? He can''t just imagine it and it said he needs to describe it, now it''s just asking for the name of the object he''s trying to create? what the heck?


    "What is the database?"


    [[The database contains all your memories from your current and past lives]]


    "Can I regain all of my memories?"


    [[That is not possible.]]


    "What do you mean by not possible? you made me a god, what exactly is the meaning of ''impossible'' to you?"


    [[Those memories are currently unnecessary for the user and would just be stored in the database, The information contained inside the database might damage the state of mind of the user so it would be locked to the user]]


    Damage his state of mind?, He remained sane for years after being in nothingness what exactly could damage him? , He decided to move on and ignore it, he was not that interested in the memories of his past lives


    [[Please name the object you would like to create.]]


    "Create Light!" He called out


    [[Searching Started.]


    [[Searching Database...Complete, Fixing the model of ''Light''.....Complete, Attempting to create ''Light'', ]]


    [[Completed in the first attempt, you may now create light]]


    [[Where would you like to create ''Light''?]]


    "There!" He then pointed his finger to an empty space in front of him, to be clear, everything around him was empty except his existence.


    [[Creating ''Light'']]


    [[Consuming Essence of the user]]


    His body glowed slightly then chunks of it left him, he felt nothing about it as they gathered on the area he was pointing on, it formed a small ball of light, now there was a light as big as his hands floating in front of him and his body glowed a little bit dimmer.


    [[Essence: 50/100]]


    "W-wait it consumes my essence?!" He shouted, from his understanding, he is currently an "essence", and if he runs out of it, that means he would die.


    [[Worry not user, You will fully regain your essence as time pass by, God''s can''t die but you wouldn''t be able to create anything until you regain your essence completely.]]


    "I-I see.." He sighed out of relief, he forgot that almost everything on his past world that gods are immortal. looks like its true after all


    He looked at the light floating in front of him, it was different from him, He has a white essence while the light emits yellowish light,


    He was happy about his first creation, it might be small but it was a big event for him, he was no longer a human.


    "Does this last forever?"


    [[It will last as long as the user wishes it to be there.]]


    "I see."


    He played around with the ball of light for a while until he got bored of it


    [[Essence 100/100]] meanwhile his essence was fully restored.


    He decided to create another light but he tried another approach to creation.


    "Let there be light!"


    [[Creating ''Light'']]


    He then created a lot of light and made the ball of light bigger.


    He stops when his essence reached 50% means he could only create light every 10 minutes.


    [[Creating ''Light'']]


    [[Creating ''Light'']]


    [[Creating ''Light'']]


    [[Creating ''Light'']]


    [[....]]


    He discovered that the system meant that he could only attempt five times at creating the creation for the first time and he could create it infinitely after he succeeds, now the ball of light in front of him was now as big as him.


    He could feel a small amount of heat coming out of it as it emits light.


    it was like a small star to him.

 3 Training and Increasing Essence Capacity

    ....


    "Is there a way to create a bigger light instead of pushing them together?"


    [[The system will consume additional essence to create a bigger light instead of creating them one by one.]]


    "I see..." He sighed


    "Then can I increase my Essence regeneration rate or increase its capacity?" He asked the system, His progress of creating light was too slow and takes 10 minutes just to create a light that as big as his hand.


    The system didn''t instantly reply to him, instead, a HUD appeared.


    [[ Achievements ]]


    [[ Creation ]]


    [[ Create Light: 50/100 ]]


    [[Your essence regeneration rate would increase as your essence capacity increases, to increase your limit you could create more and reach the goal set by the system, currently, you have a goal of creating 100 ''Light'']]


    "Is there a way to increase it without waiting for 10 minutes while my essence is regenerating?" He regained the concept of being ''bored'' now that he has something to do every 10 minutes.


    [[You need to have a sentient creation that would worship you to increase your essence regeneration rate, while you could double your essence capacity by increasing your god rank, to increase your God Rank by doing some exercises such as Pushups, Sit ups and running Daily.]]


    [[ Achievements ]]


    [[ Training ]]


    [[ Running: 0 / 10 KM ]]


    [[ Sit Ups: 0 / 100 ]]


    [[ Push Ups: 0 / 100 ]]


    [[God Rank: Novice 50/ 1000]]


    "Alright, where should I start first?... the longest one should do it" He sighed then started running around the ball of light he created, he doesn''t want to go too far and lose sight of it.


    After running for a while and stopping after every 10 minutes to make the ball of light bigger, he finally created 100 light, He stopped running as the system announces it, he also finished running 10 km because he doesn''t get tired anymore.


    [[Congratulations, you have reached a milestone, the system will now reward you by increasing your Essence Capacity.]]


    [[Essence: 50/100]] + 150


    [[Essence: 200/250]]


    [[Changing Achievements for Creation and Training..Complete]]


    [[ Achievements ]]


    [[ Creation ]]


    [[ Create Light: 100/1000 ]]


    [[ Achievements ]]


    [[ Training ]]


    [[ Running: COMPLETE ]]


    [[ Sit Ups: 0 / 100 ]]


    [[ Push Ups: 0 / 100 ]]


    [[God Rank: Novice 200 / 1000]]


    With his expanded essence capacity, he can now create light four times every Fifteen Minutes.


    The ball of light was now twice as big than before, he doesn''t know what he should do with it but he kept increasing its size.


    "Can I create other things except light with my current essence?" He asked.


    [[Searching Database.....Complete, You can now create ''stone'' and ''water'', The User would need 100 Essence for creation of ''stone'' or ''water'']]


    "Oh!" He was quite excited to see how the system would create those things.


    "Then create stone!" He said as he point on the empty space near the ball of light.


    [[Fixing the model of ''Stone''.....Complete, Attempting to create ''Stone''...Completed in the first attempt]]


    A chunk of essence came out from his body and gathered at the spot he was pointing on, It stopped when it was as big as his fist then lost its light, soon it became greyish and solid.


    [[Updating Creation Achievements....]]


    [[ Achievements ]]


    [[ Creation ]]


    [[ Create Light: 100/1000 ]]


    [[ Create Stone: 0 / 100 ]]


    [[Essence: 100/250]]


    He easily ran out of essence and can only create two light once before 15 minutes


    He walked towards the stone and touched it, yet his hands passed through it.


    [[The User has no physical body disabling his ability to interact with solid objects.]] The system said after his hands passed by


    "wait...wait a second, where am I standing on? is this not a solid object?" He became confused due to the explanation of the system, He was running around and walking for a while now and just noticed that the very place his standing on wasn''t solid, it wasn''t glass or anything transparent that existed on earth.


    [[The System is currently assisting the user to walk through the void since the User currently doesn''t have the ability to fly.]]


    "I-I see, so it was you.."


    "Is there a way for me to interact with solid objects?"


    [[The User doesn''t have enough essence to create a Human Body for it]]


    "I see.. how much essence does it require for you to create a human body for me?"


    [[Atleast 10,000 Essence is needed to create a physical body for the User]]


    "10,000 essence it is!" He wanted to regain his body so he started completing his tasks.


    After training for a while he can now create another stone.


    "Create Stone!" Apparently he had no cool phrase when creating stone unlike light, He pointed towards the stone and a chunk of his essence left his body and enveloped the stone.


    CRACK!


    The stone was crushed as soon as the light enveloped it.


    "W-what?!"


    [[The User can''t combine solid objects yet, please refrain from trying to combine physical objects at your current state.]] The system explained.


    ".....why didn''t you explain sooner?"


    [[.....]] The system was silent, He felt like it did it on purpose and followed his order of creating stone without warning him that it would destroy both of the stones when it''s combined.


    Now that he learned his lesson he never created stone again and just created light whenever he stops training.

 4 Dimensional Rif

    [[God Rank: Novice 400 / 1000]]


    He finally finished training.


    "When will the training quests be reset?" He said as he creates a light, The ball of light he was gathering was now thrice as big than before, While there was a bunch of small stones floating around it making it look like an asteroid belt, but they were not revolving around it because the ball of light doesn''t have gravity.


    [[2 Hours Before Quest Reset]]


    "I see... what else can I do except create things and train?" He asked the system


    [[Nothing for now.]]


    "....guess I''ll wait then.." He sighed and closed his eyes, starting to count.


    Counting became his hobby after he died because there was nothing to do except that....After 15 minutes his essence was full again, it was time for him to create light again.


    "Let there be li-"


    Then he heard a voice, it wasn''t the voice of the system nor his.


    "Come back here!"


    [[Warning, a dimensional rift has been detected please prepare yourself for an encounter.]]


    "Wha-" He instinctively backed away and stopped trying to create light, the space behind the ball of light he created slowly distorted and started to absorb the light.


    "No! my creation!" He panicked seeing his own creation get absorbed but all he can do was back away since he doesn''t know what was absorbing it.


    [[A titan has been detected, Danger Level a, Dimensional Worm]]


    A Worm with hundreds of teeth came out of the distortion and started chomping down the light he created


    "System! that was my hours of work! Is there a way to destroy it?"


    [[You can harness your essence and fire it towards the creature.]]


    "How exactly do I-" Before he completed his question the system continued


    [[Remember the feeling you feel when the system gathers your essence to create an object, gather those on your hand then expel it out of your palm]]


    [[I suggest aiming for the worm''s head]]


    "Alright!" He started to gather his essence on his hands, he ran to the worm''s side and aim towards its head... when he felt like it was all of his essence he expelled all of his essence towards it


    "Begone!" He said as he fires a beam of light from both of his hands.


    [[Skill, Essence Blast has been created, Consumes Almost all of the User''s Essence leaving only one behind, Amplifies one''s Essence by 3 times and expels it to the target, Can only be used in your essence form, Can only be used if the essence capacity is full]]


    The moment it hits the worm, the parts that got hit got disintegrated.


    [[Essence : 1/250]]


    [[Congratulations, you can absorb the titan''s essence and increase your essence beyond its capacity temporarily.]]


    He felt extremely tired after consuming almost all of his essence, the light coming from his body was extremely dim now too, almost invisible.


    "Alright time to refill myself then, how do I absorb it?"


    [[Please put your hands on the creature and the system will absorb it.]]


    He did what the system said and placed his hands on the headless worm, soon the creature''s body started defragmenting and turned into light


    [[Essence: 1001/250]]


    [[The Worm''s corpse was severely damaged and only 1/10th of its essence has been absorbed.]] The light on his body was restored, though it emits brighter light compared to his maximum 250 Essence


    [[Another entity is approaching from the Dimensional Rift.]]


    "What?! Again?" He backed away again prepared to blast off whatever comes out of the Rift.


    "Where is it?!" A female emerged from the dimensional rift, she had magnificent wings and is wearing a white armor, she was also carrying a huge sword.


    "Whoa-" The moment she stepped out of the rift she fell over the void, She immediately flapped her wings and regained her balance.


    "Where is this?" Her eyes widen as she saw vast nothingness around the one and only light with a few stones floating on the void, Normally there would be stars and asteroids floating around a dimension but there was nothing here, so it was normal for her to be shocked about it


    "Who are you?" He asked the girl.


    "W-wha-" She suddenly remembered the task assigned to her.


    "Where''s the worm?!" She pointed her sword at him.


    "I killed it!"


    "What?" She looked at him up and down


    "A lowly god like you who doesn''t even have a physical form killed it?" seeing that he doesn''t have a physical form, she scoffed at him


    "Yes I killed it!"


    "....." She couldn''t believe what she heard since a Dimensional Worm could easily kill a novice god like him, someone who doesn''t have a physical body, even though its heavily injured, it was supposed to be impossible for him to kill it.


    "Did you really kill it?"


    "Yes?" This was the third time he repeated it


    ''what''s wrong with this girl?''


    "Stop lying, wheres the god that killed it?"


    "He''s infront of you, Its me, I killed it, Also can''t you see that there''s nothing else here except you, me and my creations?"


    "..." That silenced the girl


    "Come with me." She said as she turns her back on him, she started adjusting the Rift''s destination.


    "Who are you?"


    "Lucy, Servant of the 5th Supreme God Gaia, What''s your name Novice God?"


    "...uhhhh...."


    "Lucio..a novice god, nice to meet you." He decided to base his name from the girl and tweaked it a bit, Lucio. His old name used to start with L but then he forgot it with the time he spent in the void.


    [[Name : Unknown God]] Turned into [[Name : Lucio ]]


    "Follow me." She ignored his greeting and entered the rift which was significantly bigger than before


    "Where are we going?" He asked as he follow her inside it , He got curious about her and the other beings that exist since he''s been alone for ages, also as he know, gods cant die so theres no danger following her


    "Lord Gaia''s Dimension, you are to be judged at the court."


    "what? did I do something ba-"


    "Silence! just follow me"

 5 Court of the Gods

    Suddenly they were in a place that has godlike structures in the distance


    A group of valkyries approached them.


    "Captain Lucy! Welcome back have you slain-"


    "Silence! I''m in a hurry, you come with me quick." Lucy walked past the group of valkyries that gave them a greeting and told Lucio to follow him, he had silently followed Lucy while looking at the valkyries.


    ''Captain? is she a leader of those valkyries?'' He silently thought.


    .


    "Is she upset?"


    "Maybe she failed?"


    "Captain Lucy Failing to slay a danger level ''a'' creature? she''s not that weak, she''s the strongest among us valkyries!" The valkyries started gossiping as soon as Lucy and Lucio disappeared within their sight


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    After walking for a while, they arrived at their destination there were two valkyries wearing an armor giving out a yellow light guarding a heavenly arc, compared to Lucy''s armor it wasn''t as bright as her white armor.


    "Captain!"


    "Allow this god to enter the court," Lucy said as they approach them


    "Right away! please put your hand on this crystal." The valkyrie produced a crystal ball out of her hand.


    "Alright?.." Lucio steps forward then placed his hand on the crystal, the moment he touched the crystal, surprisingly his hands didn''t pass through it and he successfully touched the crystal, it gave off a faint light and he felt a bit of his essence got absorbed from him.


    [[Essence 1001/200]] - 1


    [[Essence 1000/200]]


    "You may now enter the court." One of them said as they step aside and allow them to enter the portal


    .


    "Why doesn''t he have a physical form?"


    "He must be a new god, new gods don''t have physical form right? Its been millenniums since a new god visited the court. " The two valkyries chatted about the new god as soon as they disappeared through the portal


    .


    [[An Unknown force has been detected]]


    [[An Unknown force has been detected]]


    [[An Unknown force has been detected]]


    [[An Unknown force has been detected]]


    The moment he stepped inside the portal the system spammed him with notifications.


    Inside it was a court with objects that were giving off a gold light.


    "Lucy, what brought you to the court of the gods?, have you slain the Dimensional Worm that destroyed some of Lord Gaia''s Creation?" A booming voice sounded through the court, the owner of the voice was a human with green scales standing on the right side of the judge''s seat.


    "No, I failed, but it was killed by someone else." Lucy suddenly knelt on the ground and kept her head down


    "Can you introduce us to the god that''s with you?, I assume that he''s the one that killed it since you brought him here. " A girl with a hair made out white light spoke, she was standing on the left side of the judge''s seat, The seat of the judge was empty.


    ''Where''s the judge?''


    "A new god that doesn''t have a physical form killed it?" The green scaled god spoke with doubts. On the world of gods, a physical form was the norm, a god without it can''t properly circulate their energies on their body weakening them significantly, It might be possible to kill a god''s body but its essence is immortal, a novice god normally doesn''t have a shape


    "Yes, When I arrived at his dimension there was no trace of the dimensional worm left." Lucy explained


    "No trace? can you explain the situation of the universe of where its corpse disappeared?" The light haired god spoke


    "The universe was pretty empty, there were almost no creations except a small light and a few floating stones there."


    "There was nothing?" The green scaled raised his brows, a dimension without anything was almost impossible to exist unless it was made in purpose which was impossible for gods to create unless they have a god rank of Supreme God and is capable of creating a new universe


    "What are the coordinates of the void?" The light haired god asked she was interested in seeing a universe without any creations on it.


    [[User, If they discover the universe the system created for you would be taken away forcefully]] The system warned.


    "I believe its-" Lucy was about to expose the coordinates of his universe when someone from the seat of the judge spoke.


    "There is no need to tell that to us." Light gathered in the main seat forming a humanlike God, he was wearing a smiling mask.


    [[A dangerous force has been detected, Your essence is being restricted, you can not use any of your abilities for now]]


    "W-what?" Lucio was surprised with the sudden appearance of the god and the restriction of his abilities


    "My lord!" The two gods and Lucy bowed to him.


    "At ease, I believe you are a new god created by the phenomena? I welcome you to the court of the gods, forgive my servant''s rudeness." The masked god spoke


    "My lord, you are too kind, why must you welcome a lowly god such as-"


    "Are you questioning me?" The masked god looked at the green scaled god, even though he was wearing a smiling mask he looked pretty intimidating with it.


    "O-Ofcourse not my lord"


    "Hmmmm, so you''ve slain the dimensional worm, Correct?" The masked god asked Lucio


    "Yes I did"


    "Hmmmmm.." Suddenly the masked god was infront of Lucio, he looked at him closely for a while then turned his back to him


    "No lies are detected, he''s not lying, you brought him here to be judged right? he can go now, oh and ah! give him a house in my dimension, specifically my planet tell them I ordered you to do it, I''ll pay them a visit later" The masked god casually waved his hand to Lucy


    "Y-yes my lord! come with me" Lucy looked at Lucio then left the court


    "That''s that?" Lucio sighed out of relief and followed Lucy


    , he thought it would take a long time for him to get judged but then he forgot that they''re gods and they could determine it right away.


    "My lord, why did you send your clone here?"


    "I sensed a strange existence here therefore I visited"


    "A strange existence?"


    "Yes... keep your eyes on him"

 6 New Home

    "....."


    "Umm... where are we going?" Lucio asked, they''ve been walking for a while now and he kept attracting attention from everyone due to his ethereal form, everyone had a physical form while he didn''t, he can''t help but feel naked with the way people stare at him.


    "To your house, Lord Gaia ordered me to bring you to your house."


    "About that... can''t I just return to my home?"


    "That won''t do, Lord Gaia has ordered me to do this, plus You can just set a portal up on your new house to your dimension."


    "I can do that?"


    "Aren''t you a god?"


    "You treat me like I''m not a god."


    "Oh my bad, Lord Lucio." She replied in a rude way


    "...." Lucio was getting a little bit annoyed with the way she treats him.


    "Who was that masked god? How did he know I wasn''t lying?" Just to be sure Lucio asked about the masked god


    "You could''ve asked that sooner, He''s our Supreme God, Lord Gaia, Lord Gaia has a higher god rank than you, therefore he could determine if you lied or not."


    "That''s quite convenient but at the same time rude."


    "Gods are not bounded by rules unless there''s a higher ranking god that chose to rule over them, and Lord Gaia is the ruler of this dimension, so you better obey"


    "Is there a reason for Gaia-" Lucio was about to ask about why Gaia decided to give him a house on one of his planet but Lucy interrupted him.


    "Lord Gaia." Lucy corrected Lucio


    "Lord Gaia is a generous god that gives newly born gods a land on one of his planets, you should be grateful that he even gave you a land on his main planet." She continued.


    "We''ve arrived," Lucy said as she stopped infront of a huge building that looked like a corporate building the only difference is it was purely made out of gold, why are the most of the buildings here are made out of gold? he wondered.


    "Wait, I thought I''d get a house not a building?"


    "No silly this is where you''ll get your land, there you could create your house." he got more confused with Lucy''s explanation, he thought he''d get a house now its a land, not that he''s complaining but it was still strange.


    "Houses of gods are also known as Temples and Churches, you''ll need a significant amount of land to build your house and establish a religion therefore Lord Gaia gave you that land, you should start your religion if you can create your first mortals in your land."


    "I''m a novice god, you expect me to create a mortal?"


    "Normally novice gods can create creatures already" Lucy replied as she opens the magnificent golden door.


    "Wait really?" He entered with Lucy.


    "Welcome welcome!" A floating blue ball of light welcomed them.


    ''What is she?'' Lucio asked the system


    [[A Fairy.]] As the system answered him he looked closer at the blue ball of light, there was a tiny girl with blue wings flying inside it.


    "Miss Lucy, are you here to buy land?"


    "No, for the last time I''m not a god, I have no use for those, but he has." Lucy stepped on her side then pointed at Lucio


    The fairy gave him a weird look then after staring at him for a while she finally remembered something.


    "Oooooh a newly born god?" The fairy started flying around him inspecting him


    "Lord Gaia said that you should give him land on planet earth" Lucy mentioned ''Earth'' and that attracted Lucio''s attention, he would''ve never thought that he would get a land on his old planet.


    "Oooooooh he must be special then!"


    "Not really, it seems like he can''t even create his own mortals right now so he must be pretty weak.." Lucy explained then mumbled something at the end about ''not knowing how he killed an a rank titan''


    "Alright follow me Lord....Lord?...Uhh....What''s your name?" She was about to fly away when she realized that she still hasn''t got the new god''s name


    "Lucio." He answered


    "Lord Lucio please follow me!" She smiled then flew to the reception where there''s a creature wearing glasses while reading books.


    She approached him then whispered to his ears.


    The creature nodded then spoke


    "Name?"


    "Lucio." He answered


    "Open" He waved his hand in the air, with that gesture a portal appeared


    "Is creating a portal that easy?" Lucio asked the system, he already met two person that could create a portal so it might be easy to create


    [[You would need the coordinates of the place you want to go and a significant amount of your essence.]] The system answered.


    "How much essence do I need?"


    [[500 Essence for one use portal.]]


    "Five hundred?!" For him, that amount of essence was huge since his capacity is only 250 and he currently had 1,000 essences due to him absorbing it from the titan


    "So they are stronger than me? I thought gods are the strongest being."


    [[They are not, but a god can create a stronger creature than them, the creatures can die but gods essence can''t die, only their physical form can die but that can easily be remade if the god is powerful enough, those creatures are specially made to open portals so please don''t compare yourself to them.]]


    "I see..." He mumbled, creatures probably had lifespan while gods don''t, they were immortals.


    The conversation between him and the system takes time and he just noticed that they were staring at him.


    "Are you going or not?, don''t get me wrong, you are required to go since Lord Gaia has ordered me to do this" Lucy said as she stands infront of the portal


    "I am going!"


    "Alright follow me." Lucy said as she spreads her wings then enter the portal, That reminded him about the moment where she entered his dimension and almost fell into the pure nothingness, will he fall or spin uncontrollably if they appear in space or the sky?


    [[You shouldn''t worry about insignificant things User, The system will assist you until you can fly in your own]]


    "You were reading my thoughts?"


    [[Yes.]] Now that the system confirmed that, he no longer had the privacy he had long time ago before he became a god.


    He entered the portal.


    They appeared in the space, there was a huge blue planet infront of them, it was earth.


    "I''m back huh?..." He unconsciously spoke.


    "Back? have you been here before?" Lucy was on his side floating with her wings.


    "Can we continue?" He chose not to answer her question, he doesn''t want to talk about his past.


    "Alright follow me closely." As she said that her wings spreads out then she flies down the planet at Mach 6 speed, how the heck is he supposed to follow her closely if she''s that fast?!, little does he know that it could be considered as slow in a god''s term, normally gods can travel faster than the light or just teleport.


    "System, can you turn the assist mode off for a bit? I want to free fall from here"


    [[Thats not possible, God''s are not affected by gravity, they are only affected by it if they will it, you currently have no power to freely bend a world''s law, but you may rotate your body in every way you want]] The system explained, he thought he could just disable the system''s help then fall to the planet then activate it before he hits the ground, now that the system explained, he had no choice but to run to the planet.


    He sighed and started running towards it, he just noticed that he was unusually fast when he ran, He doesn''t get it at all, it doesn''t make sense but he still continued.


    After an hour or two he finally arrived at the planet''s surface.


    "You took an awfully lot of time going down here" Lucy said as she was waiting for him to come down a long time ago.


    "I can''t fly that fast like you." He said as he rotates his body in the right way, he was facing the ground when he ran down the planet.


    "Normally novice god''s can teleport already." She mentioned something that he didn''t know.


    "Wait really?" Did he just waste his time running? he asked the system about it.


    [[You would need 10 essence for each kilometer you travel with your teleportation.]] 10 essence per kilometer was a lot if he teleported from space but not so much if he was in land, It was better for him to just run and deal with it.


    "Thats expensive." He mumbled.


    "That''s where you''ll have your land." Lucy pointed out at the huge mountain infront of them.


    "Will the whole mountain be mine?"


    "Yes, you are free to do whatever you want in that mountain, you can expand your territory by having followers or worshippers" Lucy explained


    "But becareful of the other gods, they don''t like random gods entering their territories without their permission so please do ask for permission before you enter someone else''s border."


    "Now that I showed you your territory, I must leave." She spreads her wings then flew out the sky, she looked like an angel returning to the heavens.


    "..."


    "I guess this is where everything really starts?" Lucio said as he look towards the mountain.

 7 Hunting 1

    "...What now? what should I do first?" Lucio asked the system.


    [[You currently can''t create anything useful for your territory so I suggest training your body and finishing quests till you can]]


    "Speaking of quests... Its done resetting right?"


    [[ Achievements ]]


    [[ Training ]]


    [[ Running: COMPLETE! ]]


    [[ Sit Ups: 0 / 100 ]]


    [[ Push Ups: 0 / 100 ]]


    "I''m done with the running already?" Now that the thinked about it, he ran from space to the surface of the planet, that enough was more than 10km already.


    [[Essence : 1000/350]] 250 became 350, it was increased by a hundred everytime he completes a training.


    "Alright time to train!" He started doing sit ups.


    one...


    two....


    three..


    .....


    .....


    .....


    [[ Achievements ]]


    [[ Training ]]


    [[ Running: COMPLETE! ]]


    [[ Sit Ups: COMPLETE! ]]


    [[ Push Ups:COMPLETE!]]


    [[Essence : 1000/550]]


    Now that he completed his training, he had nothing left to do.


    "....that didn''t increase my essence capacity much" Lucio felt a bit disappointed with his progress, but it was better than nothing.


    Rustle Rustle... A bush nearby made a rustling sound, It attracted his attention making him get close to it.


    Suddenly, there was a strange creature that jumped out of the bush, it was a horned rabbit, those didn''t exist in earth so why was it here?


    [[Horned Rabbit, Class f monster]]


    "Wait, this adorable creature is classified as a monster?!" He approached it and tried to lift it but his hands went through it.


    [[User, I repeat, You can''t interact with physical objects until you get a physical body]]


    The horned rabbit ignored him, he tried to poke it again but failed due to his hands passing through.


    [[User, I repeat, You can''t-]] Before the system repeats it he interrupted it by saying "I know it, no need to repeat it I was just trying something out"


    He wants to know if it can sense him or not, it looks like it can''t, he decided to have fun with his creation skill and confuse the horned rabbit by creating a stone out of nowhere.


    "Create Stone!" His essence gathered around his hands and formed a stone on top of his hand, instead of it floating like it used to in the void, it fell right to the ground making a thud sound.


    The rabbit heard it and got startled by it, it turned around and bowed its head to the ground pointing its horn towards the sound, prepared to combat whatever made that sound...


    Finding nothing but a mere perfect cube rock, it relaxed and approached it, sniffing it then poking it with its horns.


    [[User, you can try absorbing Horned Rabbit''s essence.]]


    "That''s just horrible."


    [[User, have you forgot that you just absorbed a Titan?]]


    "They''re different!" He wanted to get stronger but the thought of him killing the rabbit and absorbing its essence made him shiver.


    [[They are different, one can be a threat to a god and its creation while a monster can only be a threat to mortals and other creations unless they get strong enough to the point they become a titan and could absorb essences.]]


    "I see." Lucio thought that Titan''s are also created by a phenomenon like how gods were created


    He continued to observe the horned rabbit as it circles around the stone he created.


    "Well then are there any creatures in my territory that I could kill without feeling bad?"


    [[There is, There are currently corrupted monsters that roam around your territory.]]


    "Where are they?"


    [[The System hasn''t fully gained control of your territory and cannot determine the exact location of those creatures, but the system has successfully made a mini-map of your territory.]] The system explained as a small circular map appeared on the corner of his sight.


    "...but what I''m trying to find are the creatures... what do I need this map for?"


    [[...]] The system went silent the moment he mentioned that.


    "Fine, I''ll find them myself." He said as he ran towards the sky and look around the mountain, he looked weird running in the air but he still couldn''t fly, It''s just a good thing that no one could see him, it was totally uncool.


    "When will I be able to fly on my own without your help?" He asked the system.


    [[When you increase your god rank you will unlock new abilities, or you can unlock them on your own by experimenting with your own essence.]]


    "What''s my God rank?"


    [[God Rank: Novice 700/ 1000]] turns out that completing his training quest only gives him 100 exp for each training.


    "Alright time to get back at searching." He sighed then started running again while looking around.


    ...


    .....


    After looking for a while he realized something


    "I''ve been searching for a while but I don''t even know what a corrupted creature looks like, am I actually stupid?"


    "System, How would I know if they are corrupted?"


    [[Corrupted Creatures are usually covered with dark essence.]] The system explained.


    "Dark Essence?" The moment he spotted a darkish aura coming out from a tree in a distance.


    "Is that a corrupted creature?"


    [[Corrupted Elder Ent, Class B Monster]] The system said.


    It was a walking tree, its leaves were purple and was emitting a substance that made the other plants decay upon contact.


    "It''s destroying the nature!" Lucio was about to attack it with his essence but then he remembered the power of it and decided not to.


    "How can I fight it?" He asked the system


    [[With the User''s current condition, you currently can''t fight it with your fist, I suggest hurling stones at it.]]


    Lucio created a stone as the system said and was about to throw it towards the Ent but it passed through his hands and falls to the ground.


    "I couldn''t touch them, how am I supposed to throw those stones?!"


    [[You can use your will to control your creation.]]


    "Why didn''t you say that sooner?" He always thought that he couldn''t control his creations and can only create them.


    "Alright!" He started gathering essence around his hands and tried it the second time, he created a bigger stone consuming more essence then pointed his index finger towards the Ent.


    "Go!" He ordered the Stone he created, the stone was hurled by his will at a high speed hitting the Ent making a hole on its body.


    The stone was shattered in the process of damaging the Ent but it still killed the Ent.


    "Oh! I killed it!" He ran towards it and looked at its remains


    "What do I do now?" Lucio asked the system

 8 Hunting 2

    [[Please put your hands on the creature and the system will absorb it for you.]]


    [[Essence: 700/550]]


    [[Absorbing...Complete.]]


    [[Essence: 800/550]] He used 300 Essence to create the stone he hurled at the Ent but he only got 100 as a return, he felt really disappointed about that but he can''t do anything about it, It''s been used already.


    "If I only know that the stone would be thrown at high speed I shouldn''t have created a stone that big, next time warn me about those kind of things" He said to the system.


    [[.....]] The system didn''t answer him.


    [[User, There seems to be a corrupted creature not so far from your left, please absorb its essence.]]


    "Why are you changing the subject?"


    [[.....]] The system went silent again, it always goes silent at times like these.


    "...alright if you aren''t going to warn me about it then I''ll just be careful." he turned to direction that the system pointed out then started running on it, soon he saw the corrupted creature.


    This time it was a bear with red eyes, covered with black fur making it look ominous, it noticed his presence and looked at him from afar.


    [[Corrupted Red Eyed Bear, Class C monster has noticed your presence]] A notification popped up.


    He wasted no time and gathered essence immediately, forming a stone then pointed his finger towards the head of the bear.


    "Shoot!" The stone pierced through the skull of the bear, dropping down the ground dead, it had no time to recognize him as a threat because of his creation speed and attack speed.


    "Corrupted creatures can see me?" The Ent had no chance to see him since he attacked it from the back with a huge stone.


    [[A creature can see a god if they use their essence in their eyes, a corrupted creature has essence all over its body including its eyes therefore it can see gods.]]


    "...I''m purely made out of essence right now right? does that mean I need to use essence to see a god when I get a physical body?"


    [[Yes]]


    "I see... well time to return at hunting"


    His actions soon became repetitive, Search, Kill, Absorb, Repeat.


    After searching and killing for a while he found a pack of wolves fighting a corrupted two headed wolf.


    "Why are they fighting?"


    [[Corrupted Creatures are usually violent towards every living being, they are trying to protect themselves from it]]


    Lucio decided to help out and threw a stone at it, but the wolf dodged it.


    [[Corrupted Two Headed Wolf, Class A Monster]]


    The Two Headed wolf noticed his presence and focused at him instead of the other wolves, Lucio backed away and started creating stone again, his first shot was a waste but now he can''t afford to miss.....


    Swish!


    Bang!


    The stone hits the Two Headed Wolf head on but it just shattered upon contact, there was some kind of barrier surrounding its fur, the Two Headed Wolf noticed his attack and looked at his direction, while the Two Headed Wolf was distracted the rest of the wolves tried to attack it, but the Two Headed wolf easily dodged all of them.


    "What was that?!" It was the first time that something survived his stone shot, so far every creature that he fought was one shotted with it.. mostly because he attacked them from behind.


    [[User, a rank A and above can create a barrier to protect themselves from projectiles and harm, I suggest making your attack stronger.]] The two headed wolf noticed that he was the biggest threat and decided to get rid of him first instead of attacking the other wolves, It lunged towards him and bites his arm.


    [[Essence: 700/550]] - 20


    [[Essence: 680/550]]


    [[Warning, A corrupted creature can damage your essence, please try to avoid its attacks]]


    "How am I supposed to make those stones stronger?!" He started dodging the wolf''s attacks, if it can see him, surely it can harm him, some wolves that were fighting it before tried to help him but the two headed wolf''s speed was twice as fast as them.


    [[Essence: 680/550]]-20


    [[Essence: 660/550]]


    The wolf bit him again.


    He had to think of a technique to make his stones stronger than it is without using too much essence, suddenly he remembered about how a bullet spins. he created a stone and ordered it to spin high speed, firing it towards one of the two headed wolf''s head.


    First shot broke the barrier, noticing that it''s barrier broke, it howled loudly paralyzing the nearby wolves that were attacking it.


    "Alright one more!" He didn''t get affected by it since he doesn''t have a physical body, he created another stone and made it spin at high speed, shooting it at the head of the wolf.


    One of its head had a bloody hole on it while the other one was howling in pain, It was weakened significantly with that attack slowing it down with the head injury, giving chance to the other wolves to attack it.


    They started chomping the double headed creature down, once it was dead the pack stopped attacking it and looked at Lucio''s direction.


    "Can those wolves see me?"


    [[They can''t, but they can sense you.]]


    The wolves bowed their heads and started running away.


    "They''re intelligent for a wolf."


    [[.....]]

 9 Humans?

    [[Essence: 560/550]] + 30


    [[Essence: 590/550]]


    "Why is it so low?!" He asked the system, He used 200 essence to kill the two headed wolf only to get 30 as the reward.


    [[The wolves has eaten most of its essence, leaving you only 1/10th of its essence.]]


    "They ate it? How did they do that? I thought only gods can absorb a creature''s essence!"


    [[The wolves used essence on their teeth, allowing it to get sharper than it is, allowing them to feast on essences.]] The system explained.


    "Wait they can do that?"


    [[Yes.]]


    "If they absorb enough essence do they become a god?"


    [[It is impossible to become a god without the phenomena''s or the system''s help, no they can''t]]


    "Impossible huh¡­" He was really lucky to be chosen by the system, but he never wanted to become a god, but refusing that offer would mean spending eternity in the void.


    "....Time to continue hunting"


    He started hunting again.


    [[Essence 920/550]] The Essence Capacity was starting to become useless to him since absorbing essences would overload it


    [[The essence capacity indicates the maximum essence you can recover, but there is no limit on how much you can absorb]] The system explained


    [[The system has successfully finished mapping your whole territory, the mini-map will be changed accordingly.]]


    The circular map on the edge of his sight flashed then details came, he can see green,red and purple dots on it, there was also a huge blue dot was moving through the map quickly.


    "What do those dots mean?"


    [[Red are monsters, Green are animals, Purple are corrupted creatures, Blue are mortals.]]


    "Wait, there are humans on my territory?" He thought about zooming in the blue dot and the map zoomed, there was now 5 blue dots moving quickly through the forest, were they using a vehicle?


    [[Are you not gonna hunt Corrupted creatures anymore?]]


    "That can be saved for later, I have to see humans" He started running through the trees, passing through them since he has no need to dodge them, he doesn''t have a physical body after all.


    He was getting closer and closer as he passes through the objects.


    It''s been decades since he last saw one of his kind, humans, but they weren''t like the humans he knew. one was riding a flying sword while there were 4 people following him jumping from tree to tree swiftly while throwing some blades at the guy who''s riding a sword


    Were they even humans? He only saw these type of scenes on movies.


    Those weren''t effects either, the were legit jumping from tree to tree and the sword was flying mid air.


    "How is this possible?" Lucio couldn''t believe it, how were they doing that? How can there be a flying sword at earth? how were they jumping from tree to tree quickly? , He decided to follow them, they were already far from him but he had his minimap, he can track them down aslong as they were in his territory.


    "I need to follow them!"


    "Bastard! Stop right now! you''ll regret stealing that magical sword!"


    "It recognizes me as its owner now! even if I return it no one would be able to use it except me! can you just let me go?!!" The guy riding the magic sword shouted back.


    "Once you''re dead it won''t recognize you at its owner anymore! accept your fate!"


    "Why the hell would I surrender?!" He shouted back.


    Soon they reached a dead end, a steep mountain blocked their path.


    "Stop Stop!" The guy riding the sword shouted as he went straight to the side of the mountain, the sword didn''t stop and kept going, The sword did recognize him as its owner but he couldn''t control it yet.


    They started to go closer and closer upon the huge mountain infront of them, the speed of the sword wasn''t decreasing and is maintaining its quick speed in a straight line towards the mountainside.


    "S-stop!" He started to get pale as the sword wasn''t stopping.


    "NO! The sword is going to break if it hits that!" The men chasing him started to go faster as the one leading them shouted that.


    "T-this isn''t stopping! Screw this!" He panicked and jumped off the sword and let it hit the mountain, he rolled then bounced to the ground.


    BANG, the sword went burrowed inside the rocks leaving its user behind, the sword was now stuck in the mountain.


    The three men chasing him stopped and surrounded him while the other one went and checked the sword.


    "The sword seems to be in a fine condition! we can still sell it again! all we need to do is kill the thief! Give me a few minutes go beat him up while I pull this sword out!" The blue robed guy shouted as he start digging on the sword


    "Boy, it looks like your luck has run out!" One of them said as he draw his sword out.


    "I''m not going down without a fight!" The sword thief raised his fist and went to a battle stance.


    "You think you can take four of us?" He rushed towards him and threw a punch towards his face.


    The Sword Thief ducked and counterattacked with an uppercut. His fist connected with his opponent''s chin and ended up knocking him upwards, His opponent wasn''t expecting the sword thief to make a move against him.


    "What the hell is happening here?" Lucio finally caught up and saw the exchange.

 10 Ques

    "You really thought you could fight us?!" The man spits out blood, they were in the same level of cultivation rank yet the sword thief was faster than him.


    "Come at me! like what I said I won''t be going down without a fight!"


    "You dare-!! Attack him!" The red robed man ordered his subordinates to attack the sword thief.


    "Die!!" The one with sword charged to the sword thief and swung his weapon down to him.


    "HAH!" The sword thief sidestepped successfully evading his attack then sent out his palm to his opponent''s shoulder, making a shockwave from his palm, the moment his opponent was knocked away another one came to him, he was wearing a green robe, it indicates that he was one level above him.


    The sword thief turned around and swung his fist to the green robed man.


    BANG!


    Their fist met each other,the green robed man had no weapons but he was in par with the sword thief''s speed and was a little stronger than him.


    The green robed man frowned He never expected the sword thief to be almost as strong as him, he decided to press harder with his attacks.


    They traded blows after blows and the sword thief was getting pushed back as the fight lasts longer, soon the green robed man landed a blow on the sword thief''s face knocking him back stopping the fight for a bit.


    "Not bad for a thief!"


    "Not bad your face! you''re just a little stronger than me" The Sword thief wiped the blood of his mouth then went back to his battle stance.


    "A little? Hmp!" The green robed man swiftly made a roundhouse kick, it caught the sword thief off guard and was sent flying to a nearby tree.


    "You call that a little stronger?" The green robed man smirked at the sword thief


    "You caught me off guard but you''ll never get lucky again!" The sword thief stood up then prepared for the next attack which came the moment he was done speaking, he successfully evaded the green robed man''s fist then sent out a punch in his stomach followed by another punch to his face.


    The green robed man received the punch in the stomach but successfully blocked the sword thief''s second attack, he tried to punch back but the sword thief was already out of his range.


    "Told you''ll never get lucky agai-" Before the sword thief finished talking a sword slashed on his back.


    "AARGHH!!"


    "Have you forgot? This is 3 vs 1!" The Sword Wielding Man shouted as he swipe the blood off his sword.


    "Y-you cowards!" He could still stand after being slashed by a sword on his back, he could still fight but his injury would be a heavy burden to him.


    "Now you are weaker!" The green robed man jumped then kicked the sword thief in the face , The sword thief tried to block it but failed.


    BOOM!! a shockwave was made by the kick, the sword thief was once again sent flying to the nearby tree.


    The tree fell over from the impact that the sword thief made when he landed on it, the tides of the battle was easily turned against the sword thief by the backstabbing, from an even battle it was turned into an unfair battle.


    "Haah..Haahh....Can you please spare my life?" He was heavily injured now, he could barely stand up, he was dizzy and he could do nothing but beg for his life, he no longer has a chance of escaping.


    "Where''s your confidence now huh?"


    "You stole the magical sword and now you dare to beg for your life?" The green robed man walked to him then unleashed another powerful kick that sent him flying to a tree nearby.


    "KUH!" Blood spurted out of his mouth as he hit the tree.


    "You thought we''d let you die that easily?" He kicked him once again, this time the tree was destroyed by his kick.


    "I....I only touched the sword! it recognized me at its owner! I didn''t steal it!"


    "You ran off with it! " The red robed man came over and gave him a kick, it was not as strong as the green robed man''s kick but it still harmed the sword thief.


    "I was going to get killed! who would let themself get killed just because he touched a god damn sword! there werent even signs that were telling me that touching your wares are not allowed!"


    "He only touched the sword? isn''t killing him for that a bit overboard?" Lucio thought that the sword thief stole it in purpose but it looks like he only touched it and the sword recognized him as its owner, why did they even let him touch the sword?


    [[Quest: Save The Sword Thief from danger]]


    [[Reward: Unknown ]]


    [[Time Limit: None ]]


    [[Failure condition: Target''s Death ]]


    The system suddenly gave him a quest.

 11 Worship me and I will heal you!

    "No explanations at all? just save him? alright." Lucio started thinking about how to help the sword thief, he can''t touch physical objects and he cannot be seen by creatures that can''t control their essence at all, Using the stone shot was a bit overkill for a human so he had no idea on how to save him.


    "We''re gonna torture you for a bit then kill you" They started walking towards the sword thief.


    "Boss I''ve got the sword out of the rocks!" He was now holding the magical sword that the sword thief stole, it can''t be used by anyone except him but they can still hold it.


    "Is there a way for me to speak to them?" He asked the system, he was running out of time.


    [[There is, you''ll have to spend 1 essence for each word you speak when its activated.]]


    "I''m willing to spend 1 essence per word!"


    [[Skill, Voice of an Essence has been unlocked.]] Another official skill was unlocked, so far he had Essence Blast, Creation and Destruction as official skill.


    "Activate Voice of an essence!"


    [[Please select your targets.]]


    He selected all of them then start to speak


    -1


    -1


    -1


    -1


    "Killing is prohibited in my territory. If you dare to kill someone in my territory I will kill you."


    "Who''s there?!" Everyone started to look around, the voice was speaking through their mind, it was either a stronger cultivator than them or a god, but there weren''t supposed to be a god in this area so it was probably a strong cultivator that focuses on strengthening their mind.


    "I am the god of this mountain, I will kill you if you dare to touch him again." Lucio spoke with a mighty voice


    "God?!" They were wrong, it wasn''t a stronger cultivator but a god.


    The red robed man stepped forward and spoke.


    "If you are a god then show yourself!" He doesn''t believe the voice in his head.


    ''Tsk he doesn''t believe me, I don''t want to kill him but I guess I can still do this...'' Lucio clicked his tongue and decided to punish the human.


    "Create Stone." He spoke, a fist sized stone appeared mid air.


    "What the-" The red robed man realized his mistake, it was really a god that spoke to them, but it was too late the stone was speeding up to his leg.


    CRACK!! The stone broke one of his legs.


    "AAARGH!!!!" He screamed in agony, he was now in the ground holding his leg.


    "M-my lord!" The four other people started to kneel and sweat profusely, they weren''t expecting a god to intervene with a small issue like that.


    "Leave my territory at once and I shall spare your lives!" Lucio isn''t planning to kill any of them but he decided to scare them off.


    "R-right away!" The three subordinates of the red robed man came to him and carried him away.


    "Also drop that sword! that doesn''t belong to any of you anymore!"


    "Y-yes!" The blue robed man placed the sword down then followed his friends running away from that place.


    The quest was still incomplete even though the sword thief was out of danger.


    "M-my lord I have nothing to give you please spare my life!" The sword thief kneeled then begged for his life


    ''Oh that explains everything'' Lucio thought, he was still a threat to him.


    He deactivated the voice of an essence and spoke to the system


    "Can I convert him to my follower?, I don''t need to create my own mortals for them to worship me right?"


    [[Yes, You can convert him to your follower but the system won''t explain on how you would gain him as your follower.]]


    "Tsk, aren''t you supposed to be helping me?" The system was different from other systems he knew about from the fictions he read on his past life.


    "Hmmmm.. System, is there a way to heal him?"


    [[There is, you would need 500 essence to heal him.]]


    "FIVE HUNDRED?!" He only had around 700 essence right now, 500 was a bit too much.


    [[User, that amount is pretty small compared to the amount of essence you will need to create a mortal.]]


    "Now that you mentioned it..." 500 essence was indeed small compared to 10,000 essence.


    "Worship me from now on and I shall help you" He activated the voice of essence again then made a deal.

 12 First side quest!

    "Y-you can heal me?" His body was full of wounds from the fight, mostly broken bones from blocking and head injuries, normal medicines don''t have a chance of healing him back to his normal condition.


    "I am a god, what do you expect?" Lucio was acting high and mighty even though he was not that powerful as a god.


    "I accept!" The sword thief had nothing to lose and he couldn''t run away either so he might as well accept it.


    "Very well, I will heal you" Lucio deactivated the voice of essence.


    "System, heal him" He pointed at the injured sword thief.


    [[Would you like to spend 500 essence to restore the target to its peak condition?]]


    "Yes!" The moment he said yes, chunks of essences started to leave his body and engulf the sword thief''s body.


    [[Restoring ''Claude Holzworth'' to its peak condition]] The system treated the sword thief as an object and not a person.


    "So his name is Claude huh.... my first follower" Lucio watched the whole process of Claude''s recovery, the visible wounds and the broken bent bones started to mend back to its original form.


    The light started to get dimmer and disperse from Claude''s body revealing a young man around his 20''s, he looked younger than he was before the system ''restored'' him


    "W-what?" Claude felt his body was a little bit lighter from before and he easily stand up from the ground.


    "Is this the power of a god?" Claude started to shiver thinking about how injured he was few seconds ago.


    "May this lowly being, know your almighty name?" He couldn''t kneel when he was injured but now he could, he knelt right away and asked for the being''s name.


    "I am Lucio, from now on you shall worship me" Lucio was getting a little bit tired acting high and mighty, it was far from his from his casual self.


    "I Claude Holzworth worship you!"


    "Very good, From now on I will protect you aslong as your in my territory." Lucio deactivated the voice of essence and sighed out of relief, the light on his body was dim now.


    "System, Can I check my essence?"


    [[Essence: 126/550]]


    "126?!" He was surprised, he must''ve talked too much using the voice of essence.


    "Almighty Lucio, Thank you for saving me" Claude closed his eyes and started to offer some prayers to him, his body shone for a few seconds then returned to normal.


    [[Essence: 226/550]] + 100 essence from prayers.


    "100 Essence per prayer? not bad!" Lucio was happy about getting his first follower, he''ll get 100 essence everytime a follower prays for him.


    [[Quest Complete]]


    [[Reward: Skill, Minor blessing, +1000 essence capacity]]


    "1000 Essence capacity?!" why the heck is the system giving him 1000 essence capacity for saving a human?!


    [[Essence: 226/1550]]


    "System explain!"


    [[The user has fulfilled one of the conditions that the system creator has placed upon you, you have been rewarded fairly with your performance.]]


    "I see..."


    "Wait...Someone created you?"


    [[Yes, #%^#@%^\u0026!\u0026@* Has created the system, with the purpose of finding a worthy candidate to become the strongest god.]] He had no goals to become the strongest god but he does want to create new things.


    "Is the almighty god gone?.." Claude observed for a while waiting for the voice of his new god, few minutes has passed and only silence continued, it looks like the god has left him.


    "I got a real god protecting me now...aslong as I''m at this mountain no one would be able to hurt me" He looked at the sky and started to think about his plans.


    "Alright, I''ll establish a village here" He nodded then walked to the sword he stole on the ground, it was now his.


    "This should increase my combat power! I''m really lucky today!" He laughed then started walking back to the forest he came from.


    "First I need to get materials and build some houses.....May the god protect me with my journey" He muttered a quick prayer.


    [[Side Quest: Protect ''Claude Holzworth'']]


    [[Reward: 100 Essence ]]


    [[Failure Condition: Death of the target ]]


    Lucio got a new quest from the system, it was a sidequest from his follower.


    "I only have 200 essences..... can I even protect this guy?" He can only create two stones right now and his essence would recover in a few hours, He can only save Claude two times.


    "I guess I''ll just save him from life threatening situations..." Lucio started to follow and observe Claude.

 13 Do I even need to protect him?!

    After a while a monster jumped out of a bush and attacked Claude, it was a red eyed wolf.


    Claude''s eyes glinted as he swing his sword towards the wolf, It opened its mouth and caught his blade with its fangs


    Claude swung his sword throwing the wolf away.


    "Grrrrrrrr" The wolf growled as it circles around him


    [[Red Eyed Wolf, Class D Monster]]


    "Just one?" Claude looked around him, the wolves usually travel and hunt in packs but it seems like this wolf was alone.


    The wolf saw an opening and pounced at Claude.


    Claude sidestepped then slashed down on its neck beheading the wolf.


    The battle lasted in two moves.


    "If I only had this sword before... I could''ve won." Claude mumbled as he swipe the blood off the sword, He was proficient at sword but mediocre when fighting without it.


    There were 7 red dots rushing towards Claude''s Location.


    it was a pack of wolves, it seems like that they smelled blood.


    Claude smiled at the wolves "Now this is gonna be a challenge, but a god is protecting me so it should be fine" He had faith in his new god.


    Claude made the first move and charged at the wolves.


    [[Horned Wolf, Class E Monster]]


    SLASH!!!


    One swing killed one wolf.


    The wolves started to attack Claude in succession but the speed of Claude''s movements were faster than the wolves, He easily dodged the wolves and hacked at them.


    One by one the wolves number decreased, it was a one sided massacre.


    "..... is he even a human?" Lucio wondered.


    "System, is there a way to classify a human''s strength?"


    [[There is.]]


    "What is Claude''s classification?"


    [[Claude Holsworth, Peak Class D Swordsman]]


    "Peak Class D? what about the people that he fought before?"


    [[The System can''t classify an object that''s not infront of your vision.]]


    "Weren''t they infront of me few minutes ago?"


    [[The System can''t classify an object that hasn''t been scanned before]]


    "How do you even scan-"


    [[The System only scans an object that the user wants to scan]]


    "...." Lucio sighed, was the system designed to help him? or is it designed to be an inconvenience to him?


    here were monsters that showed up and tried to attack Claude but failed, most of the battles only lasted in two or three moves, most of the monsters that tried to attack him were one rank below him.


    Soon they reached the outskirts of the mountain.


    [[Warning: You are about to leave your territory.]]


    "What happens if I leave my territory?" Lucio wanted to confirm it, would he be danger because of the other gods? or would it be fine?


    [[If the User leaves his territory, other gods would be able to sense the user and would be put in danger]] The System explained.


    "Alright" He was cautious about the other gods, he doesn''t know how strong they are but they are certainly stronger than him.


    Claude finally left the mountain, he offered a quick prayer to Lucio then continued on his way.


    "Thank you for protecting me" Claude shone as he mumbles a quick prayer, the light that he gave off turned into essence and went to Lucio''s Body.


    DING! The moment it was absorbed to his body, a ding sounded and the system showed him that he completed his quest.


    [[Side Quest Complete.]]


    [[Reward: 100 essence]]


    [[Essence:226/1550]] + 100 + 100


    [[Essence:426/1550]]


    ".....I completed the quest even though I just observed him and didn''t even lift a finger to help him."

 14 Meditation

    "System, when will my Essence get fully recovered?"


    [[122 Minutes until Essence Recovery.]]


    "Two hours huh... might as well hunt while waiting..." He could only create 4 stones with his essence, It would be better to spend his essence on creating stones before the essence recovery since his essence would be fully recovered.


    "Now then where should I create stones?" His territory was huge but there weren''t empty spaces on it, it was full of trees and stones with animals living on them


    [[The System suggests the user to destroy trees to create an empty space.]]


    "For what?..." Lucio could just hunt more corrupted creatures with the stones, but the system surprisingly suggested him to create an empty space by clearing up trees, why?


    The system suddenly showed him a quest.


    [[Quest: Create a Temple]]


    [[Reward: Unknown ]]


    [[Failure Condition: None]]


    "Oh." He finally understood it, the system wants him to find a suitable place to create a temple on, for that he needs to clear up some spaces since the mountain was full of trees.


    "Can''t I just use Destruction to do that?" He hasn''t tried to use his skill called Destruction on anything yet so he was curious about it.


    [[The User can''t use destruction on an object he didn''t create.]]


    "Fine fine.." He started to search for a suitable place to clear up.


    After an hour of searching, he finally found a suitable place to settle in, it was a high up in the mountain but it was suitable for structures, It was full of trees but it should be almost flat if the trees gets removed.


    "This place should be suitable..."


    "Stone Shot!" He aimed at the nearest tree''s trunk then shoots a stone at it.


    Bang! There was now a hole in the middle of the tree, but it wasn''t big enough to put the whole tree down.


    "....." Does he really need two shots for a tree to go down?, it would take days for the whole place get cleared up if he does that!


    "Stone Shot!"


    Bang! with that, the tree fell down.


    "Alright.. next tree!"


    "Stone Shot!" He aimed for the


    "Stone Shot!" And with the fourth stone shot, he ran out of essence to create anything


    "is there a more efficient way to destroy those trees?" He asked the system


    [[With the Users current strength, there isn''t.]]


    ".... So I need to wait for the next recovery?" With his new huge essence capacity, it takes a longer time for it to get refilled, when he became a god he only need 10 minutes to recover 50% of his essence but now he needs to wait for a few hours before recovering his essence, it doesn''t recover one by one but fully recovers after a certain time.


    "....Alright time to wait then." He had no choice but to wait, He closed his eyes and started counting again, He closed his eyes and started counting, He doesn''t know if he has eyes but whenever he thought about closing his eyes his vision darkens.


    One.


    Two.


    Three.


    Counting became his habit after spending a few years counting...


    ...


    ....


    1419..


    [[Your Essence has fully recovered.]]


    [[Essence:1550/1550]]


    "Wait... Not even an hour has passed by why did my essence recovered quickly?" He asked the system


    "So all I had to do was meditate to manually recover my essence without killing anything?" He was getting tired of hunting corrupted creatures, plus their numbers was running out and he can''t hunt without atleast a hundred essence either so he has no choice but to wait for the system essence recovery.


    "Why didn''t you tell me?!"


    [[The User didn''t ask about it]]


    "...." Is the system designed to help him or to mess around with him?


    [[The User can meditate and regain essence every second the user meditates.]]


    "I wasted all those hours when I could just meditate and recover it...", He then closed his eyes and cleared his thoughts, he doesn''t know how will he meditate since he doesn''t need to breathe anymore, he had nothing to focus on but counting...


    "Wait counting?..." Now that the noticed it, his essence recovers quickly whenever he started counting, he was regaining essences while he counts!


    "I didn''t waste my time afterall!"


    [[The User is a god, time doesn''t matter-]]


    "Useless system" He muttered.


    "Alright!" He opened his eyes and then started shooting the trees down, It was quicker than it used to be now that he can just meditate and recover essence instead of hunting corrupted creatures or waiting till the essence recovery.


    "Stone Shot!"


    "Stone Shot!"


    "Stone Shot!"


    "Stone Shot..."


    ...

 15 Summoning my follower

    A Few minutes later, he fully recovered his Essence, every minute a hundred essence gets added to his essence capacity so it only took him 15 minutes to fully recover his essence, now he had a way to recover his Essence.


    "Stone Shot!"


    "Stone Shot!"


    "Stone Shot!"


    .....


    .....


    He started to shoot down trees again, once he ran out of mana he starts to meditate, when the full essence recovery is near he doesn''t meditate and just spams stone shot until he runs out of essence since his essence would recover to its full capacity without him meditating.


    This process repeated for hours until the whole place got leveled down.


    There were only branches and trees lying on the ground, now that it was almost clear he can''t do anything about those anymore.


    "Uhhh...How do I move those out of the way?" He doesn''t have a way to move the mess he created since he doesn''t have a physical form, he can''t move them with his mind either since he didn''t create them.


    [[....]] The system stayed silent.


    "Can I get some help here?"


    [[You can communicate with your followers by using Voice of essence]]


    "....." He was trying to ask the system for a method to move them away but it casually pushed its responsibility to his follower.


    "Activate voice of an essence!"


    [[Select your targe-]] Before the system finished speaking he interrupted by saying the target''s name.


    "Claude Holzworth!"


    .....


    [[Connection Stablished.]]


    "I have a task for you, go to the mountains and a light shall guide you to a place" Lucio announced through the voice of an essence.


    "Right away!" A reply came through.


    "Deactivate voice of an essence!"


    [[Connection Removed.]]


    "Now all I have to do is wait.." Lucio closed his eyes and started meditating


    Meanwhile....


    Claude was talking to his sick sister about the event that happened a day ago.


    "I think I might have found a way to cure you" Claude smiled gently as he hold his sister''s hand.


    "What do you mean?... I''m destined to die in a few mon- Cough Cough!" Clara started coughing, she was suffering from an unknown disease that the doctors and healers on this age can''t determine and cure.


    "I''m going to die in a few months, not even gods can save me!" Tears started to flow from her eyes as those words come out from her mouth.


    "Don''t cry.. I can save you, trust your brother will you?" Claude smiled trying not to cry as he look at his sister who''s currently lying in the bed


    Suddenly, Claude''s body started glowing, he started hearing the voice of the god that saved him, he had a task for him.


    "Right away!" Claude stood up and grabbed his newly gotten sword and placed it on his scabbard


    "Sister, Let''s go I''m going to cure you." Claude approached his sister who''s currently lying in the bed looking at him strangely.


    "What are you talking abou-"


    "Come I''ll carry you!" Claude turned around the bed and crouched gesturing to her sister that she should climb up


    "Cough cough!"


    "You don''t have to bring me to another healer they can''t heal me!"


    "I''m not bringing you to a healer but to a god!"


    "When did you become religiou- Cough cough! are you planning to sacrifice me?"


    "No! Why will I sacrifice my one and only family?"


    "Are you really not going to sacrifice me?"


    "Just climb on my back already I''ll bring you somewhere"


    "...."


    "...."


    There was a moment of silence but his sister decided to trust her brother.


    "I don''t want to!"


    "Don''t you trust me?"


    "Can you carry me like a princess instead?"


    "Ah..."

 16 Healing Claudes Sister

    Lucio was meditating regaining his mana manually when the system announced that his follower entered his territory


    [[Claude Holzworth has arrived at your territory]]


    "Good! now then where is he.." Lucio checked the minimap and spotted a Light blue and a blue dot at the edge of his territory.


    "What''s this light blue dot?"


    [[The light blue color signifies your followers.]]


    "Who''s with him? Oh well I''ll find it out once I''m there." He stood up then runs to the direction where the light blue dot is.


    Soon he arrived at the place where Claude is, he was carrying a young pale girl on his arms like a princess.


    "....uhhh what?" He was confused by this sight, is it his lover? No that can''t be she''s too young to be his lover, sister then? maybe he kidnapped her? No, it can''t be, She isn''t resisting... Lucio''s mind was about to wander off when he remembered that he was here to create a light and guide Claude to the construction site of the temple.


    "Ah! Let there be light!" He waved his hand and a ball of light as big as a human''s head appeared mid air.


    "W-what is that?" Claude''s sister, Clara started to panic but Claude just smiled and spoke.


    "The god is here to guide us."


    "A g-god?!" Clara thought that his brother was crazy but now that a strange occurrence appeared infront of them her doubt started to become fear


    "Don''t worry, he helped me, he can help you too" Claude started following the light with his sister on his arms.


    Lucio started manipulating the light and slowly guides them to their destination, He know that Claude can jump from tree to tree and quickly arrive there but he was careful with his every move since he was carrying someone on his arms.


    After several minutes they finally arrived at the construction site, as soon as they arrived Lucio dispersed the light by using destroy creation.


    "What in the world?..." Claude was shocked the moment they arrived at the place, a whole forest patch was cleared out with the trees lying on the ground.


    Lucio activated the voice of essence and started to talk to Claude


    "Welcome, this will be the place where my religion starts, A temple shall stand here soon, its your task to build it"


    "Do you mean....clear out this place and build a temple?" Claude''s eye widens as he was assigned to a crazy task by his new god, building a temple would take months or a year especially when he''s alone


    "Brother? who are you talking to?" Clara looked at her brother strangely, Lucio didn''t connect the voice of essence with her since it would take additional essence to do so, leaving her clueless.


    "Can you do it?" Lucio asked


    "I will do it!" He gritted his teeth but he knows that his newfound god will guide him.


    "Now then... who''s that girl in your arms?"


    "She''s my sister! I brought her here hoping that you could heal her!"


    "B-brother who are you talking to? have you gone crazy?" Clara was panicking, her brother was talking to air.


    "...." Lucio deactivated the voice of essence then asked the system "Can I heal her?"


    [[1000 Essence to restore her to her peak condition]] The system answered


    "What the- why is it 1000 essence?!"


    [[The target''s soul is damaged which will need a significant amount of your essence to restore it]]


    "....I see" Lucio sighed, It does make sense, Claude''s wound was only made on his body and not on his soul which is why it only took 500 essence to restore him to his peak condition


    He reactivated the voice of essence then said "Put her down on the ground, I''ll heal her"


    "R-right away!" Claude gently placed her sister on the ground.


    "W-what are you doing-"


    "You''ll be healed now!" Claude smiled at his sister


    "What do you mea-"


    "Select target, Clara Holzworth!" Lucio announced to the system


    [[Restoring the target''s condition to the peak condition.]]


    [[Essence:1028/1550]] - 1000


    [[Essence:28/1550]]


    A huge chunk of essence left Lucio and enveloped Clara''s body.


    "Kyaa!" Clara lets out a squeal as the light surround her


    After a few second the light was completely absorbed by Clara.


    "W-what happened?" Clara opened her eyes then felt that her body got lighte

 17 Going back to my own dimension

    "I-I''m healed?" Clara tried to stand up as soon as she felt the change from her body and successfully standing up, tears started to flow down from her eyes she starting walking slowly then ran towards her brother, falling to him


    "My sister is finally healed..." Claude rushed to his sister and caught her, she was shaking out of happiness.


    "A-am I dreaming?"


    "No...you can live normally now..." He had doubts about the god he encountered but now it was dispelled by the miracle that the unknown god created.


    Claude considered visiting high ranking priests of the famous religions just to heal his sister but it was impossible, they never spent time dealing with people with insignificant status such as him, but now his life and his sister was saved by a god.


    They just stood there crying, Lucio couldn''t do anything except watch them silently for an hour or so before they stopped.


    Claude finally released his sister after hugging her for a while, he looked around and finally noticed what a mess the place was.


    "Hmmmm...it should be appropriate now.." Lucio activated the voice and started speaking to them


    [[Voice of an Essence Activated.]]


    "I will be sleeping for a while, wake me up when needed, do not disappoint me mortal. " Lucio just spoke a little then deactivated it right away, He plans to go back to his dimension and start spamming his creation and try to increase his Essence capacity and power.


    "I....." Claude looked at Lucio''s light manifistation as it slowly disappears.


    "I will build a temple dedicated to you!" He clenched his fist and started walking to the mess that Lucio created, he can build something out of it for now.


    "Maybe I should build a wooden house first before I actually start working on it?" He stopped for a moment then decided to build a shelter first, the house he had in the slums should be more worse than him actually building their own house, the only reason they stayed in the city was because it was safe there, now that they were being protected by a god he can live in the wilderness without worrying about strong monsters or animals attacking them.


    "Brother, are you going to build a temple for the god that healed me?" Clara was wondering why her brother was talking to himself.


    "I will eventually build a temple for the god but for now I''ll go build a house for us to live in, we should be safe here since we are protected by a god now."


    "Ah! can I help?"


    "No you can''t, you just recovered so stay there and..."


    The voices of the followers he had started to get muffled and silence as Lucio starts to go back to his Dimension.


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 18 Compression Unlocked!

    Lucio''s senses started to return, he was back at the void where he became a god, there was a huge ball of light in a distance and floating stones scattered around the space.


    "Alright I''m back, time to start creating things" Lucio walks towards the ball of light and placed his hands on it.


    "Create Light" He muttered, instead of shouting Let there be light everytime he just shortened it, Everytime he needs to create something all he need to do was say ''Create Object'' but he can also change it freely


    [[Essence 402/1550]] - 400


    Instead creating a light the size of his palm he poured almost all of his remaining essence essence on it creating a bigger light.


    [[Essence 2/1550]]


    The essence from his body started to gather around the Huge Ball of light, making it larger, at this point it was Thrice of his size, the stones that was scattered around it is almost hitting the light, the sight he was seeing reminds him of the planetary systems, A star surrounded by bunch of planets.


    "....Will those stones melt if the light I''m creating starts to emit stronger heat?" Lucio asked the system out of curiousity, the stones that he created was in there for a while but there was no reaction from them, they don''t move because there was no force that interacts with them.


    [[The light that the user has created cannot emit heat at the moment.]]


    "Does it need to be bigger or something?"


    [[If the user is seeking to create heat, the user can make the light denser by compressing it]]


    "Hmmmm..." Lucio''s thoughts starts to wander as he think about how to compress the light, while thinking he closed his eyes and focused all of his senses at thinking.


    [[Meditation has been activated]]


    [[Essence 3/1550] + 1


    + 1


    + 1


    + 1.....


    13 minutes passed by quickly and Lucio''s essence was at 800 already.


    After a while of meditation he realized that he can just order the system to do it for him, He opened his palm and spreads his arms away from the light.


    "Compress!" Lucio slowly brings his hands together with the ball of light on its center, to his suprise the huge ball of light started to get smaller and brighter as his hands get closer,it looked like he was holding the ball of light and squeezing them together.


    [[Essence 804/1550]] -100


    [[Compression has been discovered, The user can now freely compress his creation with the price of using his essence, The user can also use it at the creations of the other gods but the usage requirements will be doubled depending on the restrictions placed by the god.]]


    Lucios essence started to decrease as he compress the ball of light.


    "I see!" Lucio was excited at his new discovery, He continued to compress the light.


    [[Esssence 704/1550] -100


    -100


    -100....


    Soon he ran out of essence and the light he was compressing was almost at his size, It was brighter than before but it got smaller.


    "Time to meditate." Lucio closed his eyes and started counting.


    1.


    2.


    3.....


    This time he waited until he completely recovered all of his essence which took him 1550 seconds to completely recover his essence.


    "Alright time to completely compress this light!"


    "Compress!" He did it the compressing gesture quickly since he doesn''t need to worry about his essence running out that fast anymore.


    -100


    -100


    -100


    -100..


    [[Essence 50/1550]]


    The light was now at the size of his palm, it was really bright at this point that its color changed, it looks like warm white now, he looked at the scattered stones which was considerably far from the compressed light, he pointed his palm towards a nearby stone and willed it to come closer, the stone shaked then starts to fly towards him, he guided it closer to the compressed light.


    "Nothing is happening?" Lucio thought that it was enough to cause changes to the stone but nothing happened..


    "Maybe.." He guided the stone away from the light and to his surprise, the stone started to get deformed, one of its side was deformed while the other one was not, the light wasn''t powerful and big enough to produce energy thats enough to melt it completely.


    "That makes sense." Lucio forgot that the light he made is probably doesn''t emit that much heat to melt the stone quickly and there wasn''t any gravity or force to pull the stone down

 19 Altar of the "Unknown God"

    Lucio continued to create and compress light for a while, It has been a four days since he learned how to compress things, The light he was compressing was now half of his size, even though the void has so much space he didn''t like how the stones was just floating around it, He tried to bring them to the world of Gaia but he wasn''t strong enough to bring his creation from his dimension to the others so he just fed them all to the ball of light, it didn''t make it brighter or bigger but the void surrounding it was now empty, He was mostly creating light since he was excited to see the ball of light become a star, which would probably take years, He finished the quest on creating light which boosted his essence recovery rate by 2% which at that scale, was useless.


    His essence capacity increased from 1550 to 2750, He learned how to meditate while training his body of essence allowing him to train while recovering essence, He trained while his essence are low and created when it becomes full.


    [[Essence 2749/2750]] +1


    [[Essence 2750/2750]]


    "Alright! time to test something, Stone shot!" Lucio stopped running then shoots a stone towards the ball of light


    [[Essence 2750/2750]] - 100


    Woooosh!


    The stone travelled through the void really quickly, Before it touched the ball of light it melted changing its shape, once it entered the ball of light it was absorbed by it.


    "It generates that much heat already?" Lucio was pretty confused since it not even that big yet, He was about to ask the system about it when a notification popped up


    [[An altar dedicated to ''Unknown God'' has been created, Prayers and offerings from that altar will now be converted to essence and be delivered to you]]


    "an altar?..." Lucio was about to get more confused when the remembered that he had a follower and he ordered them to build a temple for him, they must''ve built an altar dedicated to him first, He was feeling a little bit weird since he completely forgot that they existed.


    "Why am I called Unkown God?"


    [[The user''s name hasn''t been officially registered to a court of gods]]


    "I need to be registered?"


    [[A god who isn''t registered in any court are mainly forgotten gods or demons]]


    "I see, what about the name I''ll tell my followers?"


    [[There can only be one True name for a god, The followers may give you countless titles based on your interventions and deeds but there can only be one true name for a god]]


    "I''ll visit Gaia''s Court later then... but first I''ll go check the altar my follower made for me" Lucio closed his eyes and the space around him started to warp and distort.


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    Claude and his sister had a cottage in the middle of the clearings now, There was also a small shrine just on the right of it.


    "Finally built some shrine for the god" Claude wiped his sweat away from his forehead, The trees that was on the ground when they arrived was not enough to completely build a cottage and a small shrine so he had to cut more trees and carry them, there was a stockpile of logs on the left of the cottage.


    "Clara! Come here let''s pray." Claude excitedly went inside the cottage and dragged his sister out who was peacefully sleeping inside the cottage to pray for the god.


    "Mmmm, after this let me rest okay?" Clara didn''t want to move that much and she easily get tired, the muscles of her body wasn''t strong enough for her to move around that much.


    "You''ve been mostly in bed your whole life don''t you want to do something else?"


    "I do! Its just... I''m very weak"


    "The god will give you a blessing c''mon lets pray" Claude and Clara went infront of the altar and knelt while kept their heads down.


    [[Essence 2650/2750]] + 25 + 25


    [[Essence 2700/2750]]


    Lucio''s senses started to become normal as he appear ontop of the altar, the first thing that came to his sight was two humans kneeling to him, He was surprised about it but then he remembered that he has no physical body yet and its impossible for mortals to see him while at that form.

 21 Visiting the court of the gods.

    Claude and his sister is now sleeping after a hard day of work, Lucio was pretty satisfied with the changes Clara made to the altar, it was now aesthetic with carvings unlike the block of wood It used to be.


    "That should be it, now then how do I visit the court of the gods?" Lucio looked at the night sky remembering how he had to run down from the space because he was not affected by gravity and hasn''t learned how to fly yet.


    [[The system can teleport the user to the court of the gods, however it only be used whenever you are in your own dimension]]


    "Great! that''s good! let''s go back and go there then" Lucio closed his eyes and returned to his dimension, after returning he hurriedly asked the system to teleport him to the court, what happened next surprised him, not because it teleported him but because it took almost a half of his essence.


    [[Essence 2750/2750]] - 1000


    The surroundings started to get distorted for a moment then returned to normal with everything changing, he was now in the middle of a place that had a gold design for everything, He has never been here before.


    "Where is this?" Lucio asked himself as he look around, the place was crowded with different kind of creatures, he felt pressure from them he had the urge to get on the floor and kneel but with the system''s help he resisted it.


    Soon he felt someone tapping on his shoulder from the back, Lucio turned around to check who did that since he actually felt that.


    "Are you not afraid? actually going here at your pure divine form?" The voice came from a female elf that had a laurel around her hair, she looked like those fairy goddess back from his old earth, She was wearing a green dress with golden linings, She was a bit taller than him so he had look up just to get an eye contact with her.


    "Afraid?" Lucio looked at her confused, He still haven''t created a body for himself since it costs 10,00 essence, he only had essence capacity of 2,750.


    "Afraid?..." The Elf repeated what he said, it also made her confused, then after a few moments she finally realized


    "Ah! You must be the new god that the Valkyries has been talking about!" Her expression lights up as she grab his hands and shake it


    "Umm..." Lucio just stood there until she finally stopped shaking his hands


    "Are you also a god?" Lucio asked the elf who just stopped shaking his hands, It was weird since he hasn''t felt that sensation for a very long time.


    "Yes I am! I am the Mother of Elves!" She proudly puffed her chest out which was moderate sized.


    "That''s a weird name"


    "Ah, no its a title that was given to me by my followers, My name is Aurora and Mother of Elves is just one of the title I liked so that''s how I usually introduce myself" She embarrassedly corrected him


    "Sorry for misunderstanding.. I''m just quite new with this god stuff, My name is Lucio, A title less god" Lucio bows for a moment as an apology then introduced himself


    "How did you get that title?" He tried to make a conversation since its been a while since he had a normalawkwardly, hout having to act like an almighty god


    "I created the Elven kind for Gaia since He thought the creatures he made lacked diversity, as an exchange he allowed the elves to worship me you know Gaia is a very creative god, he made beautiful landscapes and nature-" She started talking about how she got the title and the god Gaia but then a Valkyrie approached them and told them to not stand in the middle of the room, Aurora apologized to the Valkyrie then changed the topic.


    "Welcome to the court!" Aurora smiled at him awkwardly and joked about how the Valkyrie treated them, She actually forgot that they were literally at the center and have been causing some traffics among the others


    "Before I start talking about those things.. you must be here to register your god name right? You can register over- ah its not visible from here, come with me!" Aurora told Lucio to follow her and started walking towards the counter which was kind of far from the center, the room was pretty huge and there were a lot of divine and mythical creatures around it